Reddit ends RSS feeds on November 13 and closes its public API in March 2027
Reddit says RSS has become a surface for scraping and abuse. Third-party apps must register by January 12 and move to Devvit, its Developer Platform, before public API access ends.
Reddit gave RSS users 44 days of notice. Outside the communities they moderate, it offers no fallback at all.
On September 30, 2026, Reddit published two announcements about four minutes apart: one to moderators in r/modnews and one to developers in r/redditdev. RSS feeds stop on November 13, 2026. Public API access for third-party apps closes in March 2027, after a staged cutoff that starts on January 12.
Seven dates between now and March 2027
The r/redditdev post lays the API shutdown out in phases. The RSS date comes from the r/modnews post. Put together, the schedule looks like this:
Reddit's stated reason is scraping
The r/modnews post gives the reason in one sentence: "Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives."
Those alternatives are for mod teams. Reddit points them to Discord Relay, an app on its Developer Platform, for common mod alerts. Everyone else gets one line: "If you use RSS for feeds outside of a community you moderate, there is no replacement."
There is money in the background. TechCrunch reports that Reddit's "other revenue" grew 24 percent year over year to $43 million in Q2 2026, largely from AI licensing deals. We covered how sensitive investors are to it in July, when a report about Reddit's Google licensing deal sent the stock down as much as 9 percent.
Apps get a migration path. Feed readers outside mod teams do not
For apps and bots, the path is Devvit, Reddit's Developer Platform. Reddit says over 14,000 apps and bots have registered, and it names DeltaBot, MagicEyeBot, and RemindMeBot as completed or near-complete migrations. Developers are told to register, read the Data API/PRAW to Devvit migration guide, and use the registration form to flag missing capabilities.
The $1M App Migration Program pays $1,000 for each eligible app that migrates. It adds free hosting, migration guides, office hours, and "additional support for critical moderation and community apps." Applications for the bounty close on November 30, six weeks before the January cutoff starts. Reddit also runs a form for moderators whose communities depend on a bot nobody seems to maintain. It says it has received over 100 submissions so far.
Old Reddit narrows to mods and recent users
Earlier this year, Reddit required a login to use Old Reddit. The r/modnews post calls unauthenticated access Old Reddit's "largest source of abusive scraping and automated traffic." In the next few months, logged-in access will be limited to people who have used Old Reddit in the last six months. Logged-in moderators keep access with no recent-usage requirement.
Some things are still open. MediaNama notes that neither announcement says how academic researchers will get access or what commercial access will cost. Neither post answers those questions.
Why a build studio cares
Social listening dashboards, moderation alerts, RSS readers, and AI assistants that summarize threads all read Reddit through the same two doors: the feeds and the public API. Both now have a written end date.
In a GattyWorks Deep Audit, every third-party source goes on the data-flow map. In a Full Audit, each one feeds the vendor vanish-risk score, which asks questions like these: who can turn it off, with how much notice, and what the fallback is. For a Reddit RSS feed, the answers are now on the record: Reddit, 44 days from announcement to shutdown, and no replacement outside a moderated community. A Reddit API integration has a fallback, Devvit plus a fund, but Reddit decides which capabilities make the move. If a vendor's product reads Reddit and its docs never mention November 13 or January 12, that is a finding.
Next step: read Reddit's r/redditdev timeline for the API dates and the r/modnews post for RSS and Old Reddit. If a product or pipeline you paid for reads Reddit and you cannot tell which door it uses, write to us at hello@gattyworks.com before November 13 and we will tell you which deadline hits it first.